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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state. department of health, a total of 183 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending July 10th as compared with 162 for the previous week and 108 for the corresponding week last year. Measles leads the list with a total of 62 new cases. Chicken pox came second with 37 and German measles was third with 24 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 2; cancer, 5; chicken pox, 37; diphtheria, 1; gonorrhea, 6; measles, 62; German measles, 24; mumps, 19; strep infection, 11; poliomyelitis, 3; rheumatic fever, 1; malaria fever (contracted (contract-ed outside cont'l U. S.), 1; syphilis, syph-ilis, 2; whooping cough, 1; infectious in-fectious hepatitis, 6; influenza, 1; Rocky Mt. spotted fever, 1. o |